Brain Drain Quotes:

I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

- Ted Strickland

topic: Jobs, Virginia, Ohio, West Virginia, Brain Drain

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

source: "Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

topic: Ideas, Yesterday, Mind, Brain Drain

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

source: "Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

topic: Ideas, Yesterday, Mind, Brain Drain

Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

- John Dramani Mahama

source: "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.

topic: Ghana, Brain, Quota, African Continent, Reversal

Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've 'left' or need to 'go back' to one or the other. In fact, if the theatre is to avoid a brain drain, this kind of fluidity is increasingly necessary.

- Theresa Rebeck

topic: Moving, Feelings, Brain, Brain Drain

I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Struggle, Frustration, Brain, Brain Drain

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.

- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

topic: Country, Educational, Long, Brain Drain

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

- Elizabeth Gould Davis

topic: America, Brain, Kitchen, Kitchen Sinks, Brain Drain

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

- Olivia Wilde

topic: Education, School, Kids, East Coast, Brain Drain